黄浦区
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Julia Whelan climbed into the recording room in her home office. In preparation, she had avoided alcohol the night before, had avoided milk since waking at and had run through the warm-up voice exercis.
silWhelan, 38, is the calm, confident female voice behind more than 400 other audiobooks, as well as the narrated versions (叙事版本) of many articles. Once she has taken on a project, she reads through the book once or twice, deciding on themes to highlight when she gets into the recording room by using different tones and accents, and emphasizing certain words. “Narrating a book really is a performance,” she said, “and it can be harder to do than acting, becau I can’t u my eyes or facial expressions to convey something to the audience.”
As she spent time subsuming herlf in the writing of others, she began to think more about her own creative ambitions. Just before the pandemic, she began “Thank You for Listening,” combining her writing with the experiences she has collected as a narrator.
Writers say that Whelan has helped them understand their own work. “When I listen to Julia read my stories, it sounds like she is calling you over to tell you a great story,” said Nuzzi, who work has been narrated by Whelan. “When I write now, I try to think like that, that I am calling a reader over to tell him a great story. It has completely changed my approach.” Whelan said that she also learns about her writing when she experiences it as a narrator. “There is something about it that changes when you’re performing it,” she said. “I read the book out loud during every stage of its revisions but it’s different when you sit down and have the microphone in front of you, when I finally am in all the characters and the story comes to life.”
56.Before recording a book, Whelan __________.
A. acts out its narrated version
B. builds up strength through exerci
C. determines the focus of its subject
D. varies its emphasized words
57.The underlined phra “subsuming herlf in the writing of others” (paragraph 3) is clost
in meaning to “__________ herlf in the writing of others”.
A. dismissing
B. involving
C. maintaining
D. prenting
58.How does narrating help Whelan do her own writing better?
A. It enables her to think in readers’ view.
B. It inspires her to be absorbed in the story.
C. It provides her with diver life experiences.
D. It reminds her to pursue her creative ambition.
59.What can be concluded from Whelan’s experience as a narrator and writer?
模式英文A. Excellent narration is bad on convincing stories.
B. Narrating is a more rewarding ambition than writing.
C. An influential writer is definitely a wonderful narrator.
D. Experiences as a narrator can change the writing approach.
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松江区
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Whenever I ask to go to the movies, my mom’s first respon is always “No!” When I want to go dancing, she adds a firm “No! No! No!” for emphasis. She claims she is only trying to protect me from what she calls “bad elements”.
On a sunny day, Mom rejected my request to go to West Indian Day Parade and insisted I accompany her as she worked cleaning a large hou. I followed her to a grand dining room, watchi
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ng her apply lemon-scented polish to the furniture. I imagined my friends dressing up in fancy costumes, enjoying the celebratory time at the parade. I glared at my mother, hoping she could feel the anger I was directing her way.
But as I watched, my emotions began to change. I noticed how tenderly she rubbed her dusting cloth along a large piano in the corner. “Is this like your piano in Guyana, Mom?” I asked. “Yes. This baby grand piano is exactly like the one my Dad bought me when I was your age.” Her sigh was full of longing.
I knew that my mother had been a talented pianist. I vaguely recalled dancing under the piano when she practiced for hours every day. Now she could barely play for our church choir becau her fingers were gnarled from so many days spent cleaning other people’s homes.
“Stop!” Mrs. Smithers, the homeowner, yelled, “That’s a very valuable instrument!”
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“I am well aware of that.” she said slowly, “I play for my church.”
“But that’s not a church-music piano. We play classical music on that piano.”
I watched as my mother’s eyes narrowed and her face tightened. I felt the same tightening in my che
st.
“You don’t know anything about us … or pianos!” I screamed. Immediately I worried I had done something wrong, but I also felt the tightening in my chest looned.
I waited for my mother to blame me, but instead she glanced my way, smiling proudly. “That’s all I have time for today. My daughter and I are going to the parade. Come on, love.”
“But Veronica, you will return next week, right?”父亲节快乐英语
“No!” said my mother, “No! No! No!”
56.The underlined word “gnarled” in paragraph 4 probably means ______.
A. rough and twisted
B. clean and swift
C. painful but nsitive
D. bent but flexible
57.What do you know about the mother according to the article?
A. She regretted being a cleaning woman.
B. She quit her hobby to support the family.
C. She refud the daughter’s request due to the tight budget.
thatisallrightD. She wished her daughter to become a well-respected pianist.
58.How did the writer’s attitude toward her mother change on the day?
A. From critical to ashamed.
B. From fearful to respectful.
C. From pitiful to understanding.
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D. From angry to sympathetic.
59.What does the story mainly want to express?
A. Don’t look down upon tho inferior to you.
B. Reaching out for tho in trouble can be rewarding.
C. Understanding others’ experiences helps identify with them.
D. Don’t abandon your idea even if one shows strong disagreement.
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崇明区
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Francis Kéré appears on the screen in a loo white Oxford shirt and an enormous, slightly amazed smile. “Can you imagine?” the newest Pritzker Architecture Prize winner says. “I was born in a little village in Burkina Faso where there was no school then. And my father wanted me to learn how to read and write very simply becau then I could then translate or read him his letters.”
The first African winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize had already received numerous awards in h
is field, but Kéré was as surprid as anyone el to be lected for the field’s most famous prize. “Francis Kéré is pioneering architecture — sustainable to the earth and its inhabitants — in lands of extreme scarcity,” said committee chair, Tom Pritzker, in a statement. “He is equally architect and rvant, improving upon the lives and experiences of countless citizens in a region of the world that is at times forgotten. Through buildings that demonstrate beauty, modesty, boldness and invention, Kéré gracefully derves this Prize.”
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Kéré says his architectural practice was inspired by his own experience attending school with around 100 other children in a region where temperatures are regularly higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. “You will sit and it’s very hot inside,” he said. “And there was no light, while outside, the sunlight was strong and in my head the idea one day grew that as an adult, I should make it better. I was thinking about space, about room, about how I can feel better.”
In his designs for Gando Primary School and Naaba Belem Goumma Secondary School in Burkina Faso, Kéré drew on traditional building materials and emphasized shade and shadows with well-ventilated (通风良好的) spaces that reduce the need for air conditioning.noon
When he was twenty, in 1985, Kéré earned a vocational scholarship to study carpentry in Berlin. But
while absorbed in the practicality of roofing and furniture making, he also attended night school and was admitted to Technische Universität Berlin, from which he graduated in 2004 with an advanced degree in architecture. He was still a student when he designed and built Gando Primary School. It turned out to be a springboard for his career and still guides his ethos (理念) today.
56. Which of the following is a reason for Kéré’s winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize?
A. His designs are innovative and eco-friendly.
B. He’s received plenty of awards in architecture.
C. His designs mainly consist of school buildings.
